Oct 23, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Microfluidics, the science of manipulating tiny amounts of fluid in micro-scale devices, has long held promise for revolutionizing fields like medical diagnostics, chemistry, and biology research. But the specialized manufacturing techniques traditionally required to produce microfluidic chips have limited their widespread use. Now, researchers at...
Researchers develop DANGER analysis tool for the safer design of gene editing
Oct 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers has developed a software tool called DANGER (Deleterious and ANticipatable Guides Evaluated by RNA-sequencing) analysis that provides a way for the safer design of genome editing in all organisms with a transcriptome. For about a decade, researchers have used the CRISPR...
new biomaterial hits the sweet spot
Oct 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Scientists at UNSW Sydney have created a new material that could change the way human tissue can be grown in the lab and used in medical procedures. Key Takeaways Scientists have developed a new hydrogel, named Trpzip, that mimics the properties of natural human tissue,...
Adaptive optical neural network connects thousands of artificial neurons
Oct 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers headed by physicists Prof. Wolfram Pernice and Prof. Martin Salinga and computer specialist Prof. Benjamin Risse, all from the University of Münster, has developed a so-called event-based architecture, using photonic processors. In a similar way to the brain, this makes possible...
New technique creates vivid 3D color patterns inside clear glass
Oct 22, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) For centuries, scientists have marveled at the brilliant and intricate structural colors found in nature, from peacock feathers to butterfly wings. These striking hues arise not from pigments, but from the physical interaction of light with nano-scale structural features. Scientists have long sought to replicate...
A review of energy supplies for biomachine hybrid robots
Oct 22, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A recent review from the Beijing Institute of Technology categorizes energy supply methods into five types: chemical batteries, solar cells, biofuel cells, bio-thermal harvesters, and bio-vibration harvesters. Key Takeaways Bio-machine hybrid robots (BHRs) combine biological and artificial systems, offering superior mobility and lower energy demands...
New map of space precisely measures nearly 400,000 nearby galaxies
Oct 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers have long sought to map the night skies, not only to fill in our picture of the cosmos we inhabit, but also to support further research. Comprehensive compilations of astronomical objects serve many purposes: they can help scientists spot broad patterns across a population...
A bioinspired vision sensor based on InP quantum dots/oxide thin-film phototransistors
Oct 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A research team led by Prof. CAO Hongtao at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with Prof. ZHANG Haizhong's group from Fuzhou University, has developed a novel bioinspired vision sensor based on InP quantum dots...
Cobalt-free battery for cleaner, greener power
Oct 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) High-capacity and reliable rechargeable batteries are a critical component of many devices and even modes of transport. They play a key role in the shift to a greener world. A wide variety of elements are used in their production, including cobalt, the production of which...
3D micro-ice printing for medical applications
Oct 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) When Carnegie Mellon’s Manufacturing Futures Institute (MFI) issues its annual call for proposals each fall, it makes clear its objectives for offering seed funding to groups of CMU faculty whose research is aligned with MFI’s mission to inspire, engineer, and lead technological and workforce advances...